A renowned meal from a popular hotel. A competing facility declaring to make the initial. And a legal tussle that lasts years till it reaches the nation’s supreme court. This isn’t – yet – the butter chicken fight in between Moti Mahal and Daryaganj dining establishments, however an unusually comparable cooking lawsuit that started 90 years earlier in Vienna. Sachertorte is a thick chocolate cake layered with appetizing apricot jam and enrobed in thick chocolate icing. It is called for Franz Sacher, a pastry chef who worked for Prince Metternich, the Austrian statesman who controlled early 19th-century European politics. Sacher’s child Eduard, who would contribute in promoting the cake, declared his dad created it in 1832 which “made him much appreciation from the prince.” This kind of cooking area eureka minute is crucial to these cooking fights due to the fact that it connects the dish to the genius of a single person. In Monish Gujral’s book Moti Mahal’s Tandoori Trail, he informs a comparable story of his grandpa, Kundan Lal Gujral developing tandoori chicken when “his master, Mukha Singh, asked for a light and dry chicken meal for supper.” The senior Gujral marinaded chicken in yoghurt and spices, took an iron wir
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